In a podcast interview with The Field of 68 on Wednesday night, Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self said that if KU were playing a game tomorrow “it’d be hard to keep” transfer guard Zeke Mayo out of the starting lineup. “He’s been our most consistent, best guy since June, in my opinion,” Self said, reiterating a theme he had touched upon in a separate interview with Bleacher Report during the ...
After Big 12 coaches selected Kansas as the favorite to win the league this season, the Jayhawks have a chance to go out and prove it on the court beginning on Wednesday night. KU will welcome UCF to Horejsi Family Volleyball Arena at 6 p.m. The contest will also air on ESPNU as one of the Jayhawks’ two nationally televised matches of the regular season. It’s the start of an 18-match grind in the new Big ...
After suffering an injury in the final minutes of Kansas' loss to West Virginia on Saturday, starting middle linebacker Cornell Wheeler missed practice on Monday, head coach Lance Leipold said. “We’ll see where it progresses with him," Leipold said. During West Virginia's penultimate drive, safety Devin Dye tackled WVU tight end Kole Taylor on a third-down reception and Wheeler's leg bent awkwardly ...
The NBA season is only a month away, but recent weeks have featured some significant transactions for onetime Kansas players at the top level of professional basketball. Many of the former Jayhawks are firmly entrenched on their current NBA teams. Joel Embiid recently signed a multi-year maximum contract extension that will see him rack up nearly $300 million by the end of the 2028-29 season. Christian Braun ...
Morgantown, W.Va. — As Kansas and West Virginia entered the home stretch of a hotly contested Big 12 opener on Saturday, Mother Nature intervened. With KU leading 21-17 and 10 minutes and 43 seconds remaining in the game, the public-address announcer at Milan Puskar Stadium declared a severe weather delay at 2:46 p.m. Eastern Time, one minute after a visible lightning strike in the vicinity of the ...
Morgantown, W.Va. — The Kansas football team’s season has gotten off to an unexpectedly poor 1-3 start, culminating in Saturday’s conference-opening loss at West Virginia. As the Jayhawks’ vaunted class of seniors looks to keep the team together and get the year back on track, though, many of them can take solace in the fact that they’ve endured much worse — at a time when they played for a vastly ...